Chapter 317: Dark Night (End)

Waving his hand to signal that Xiao Wu could stop replaying this video footage, Sun Cheng crossed his arms over his chest and rested his chin on his right hand, his brain spinning rapidly.

"Could these people be corporate spies?"

Unable to stop a thought from popping up, he pondered it and realized he truly couldn't rule out this possibility.

The mobile hard drives recently launched by Cybertron Technology, though only on the market for a few short days, had already caused a sensation across the country, accompanied by the skyrocketing number of registered members on the Cybertron Cloud Drive, which had surpassed ten million.

Sun Cheng had even been forced to bring out over four hundred thousand mobile hard drives of various specifications from Base No. 1 in three separate batches, the vast majority of which had already been mailed to those cloud drive users who had purchased permanent memberships for the Cybertron Cloud Drive.

With their activity on various social media platforms, the speculation that Cybertron Technology Company possessed a new technology for mass-producing cheap mobile hard drives was no longer a secret.

Recently, media outlets had been constantly attempting to interview Cybertron Technology in order to obtain more comprehensive data from the company.

Although Sun Cheng hadn't paid much attention to the company lately, Wang Lu was a qualified professional manager, and being very diligent, he naturally wouldn't miss such a good opportunity, often subtly releasing various pieces of information, whether true or false, to the outside world.

Once reported by the media, it was estimated that the news of "Cybertron Technology possessing a brand-new hard drive technology" had already attracted the attention of some hard drive manufacturing enterprises, so it really wasn't impossible that they would secretly dispatch corporate spies.

Do not think that corporate espionage or the like is a plot that only appears in novels or movies; on the contrary, in various commercial activities, dispatching technical spies, moles, or even middle-to-high-level executives to rival enterprises or companies one intends to acquire has been proven in recent years to be one of the lowest-cost methods.

In the year 2003, a book titled *The Gray War: Revealing the Dark World You Don't Know* caused a sensation in the United States; in the book, the author meticulously introduced dozens of sensational corporate espionage acts that had occurred between numerous American enterprises from the 1950s to the 1990s.

According to his revelations, at least three hundred thousand to five hundred thousand technical and management elites in the United States had become corporate spies, and this gray market was worth as much as sixty billion US dollars, with IT, biopharmaceuticals, arms manufacturing, and precision machinery manufacturing being the hardest-hit areas for corporate espionage.

It's just that...

For some reason, Sun Cheng's mind suddenly recalled Ada Wong, who had arrived in Nandu from Shencheng with Ye Qi ten days ago and had disappeared from his sight again after that night.

For a moment, he couldn't determine the background of this group of people who had set their sights on him.

Standing in place, after a moment of silence, Sun Cheng's tightly furrowed brows suddenly smoothed out quickly, and the corners of his mouth even curved into an arc.

"Interesting. I have more or less achieved both of my goals for this return to reality, and I was just considering returning to the *Transformers* universe after resting for two days; I didn't expect that these last few days wouldn't be boring either..."

Muttering softly to himself, Sun Cheng's eyes couldn't help but narrow.

Did they really think that he was still the lone wolf he was when he last returned?

The Spherical Space, which could hold thousands of cubic meters of supplies, was a huge mobile Warehouse, and a few days ago, he discovered and confirmed that the Spherical Space could replenish its own consumption by absorbing Energy Liquid; this point was crucial for Sun Cheng.

At the very least, from that day on, Sun Cheng would no longer be unable to return to the real world due to worrying about the Spherical Space running out of energy.

Although the High-purity Energy Liquid from the Cybertron civilization was not easy to manufacture, sitting on a base in the *Transformers* universe, after making contact with the two major rogue states of China and Russia in the other world, he could at least produce Energy Liquid in batches.

In the thousands of cubic meters of the Spherical Space, some things Sun Cheng had prepared for himself in the *Transformers* universe were stored; they were his final trump cards for a comeback, created in case Base No. 2 was discovered and destroyed by the Decepticons or the United States military.

Now, it was time to let them show their faces in reality.

At the thought of this, the smile at the corners of his mouth turned colder, and he soon issued an order to Xiao Wu: "Record, convey these exact words to 'Revenge': 'Immediately activate the backdoor hidden in the Nandu City Management Center; I want you to lock onto the intruders' movement trajectory within half an hour.'"

"Yes, Master!"

After Xiao Wu received his order, the blue light in its pair of electronic eyes immediately flickered.

After the blue light in its eyes stopped flickering, Sun Cheng, who had just taken off the Bluetooth headset he had been wearing on his ear and put it back into his pocket, ordered again.

"Tell 'Defend', I authorize him to open the D-16 Container, password: ****************, have that Unmanned Reconnaissance Aircraft take off immediately, activate optical stealth mode, and hover at low altitude over Nandu, waiting for my subsequent orders at any time... also, tell him to be prepared to mobilize at any time..."

"Yes..."

As his gaze swept over Xiao Wu, who had re-established contact with 'Defend', Sun Cheng rubbed his chin, his eyes inadvertently looking toward the sky outside the window, which was beginning to turn red.

He had a premonition that there would be fun to be had tonight.

A black Skoda Octavia was driving rapidly on the roads within Nandu City, and a piece of pop music was playing cheerfully inside the car.

In the driver's seat, a middle-aged man with a square, broad face held the steering wheel and drove quickly, while his eyes looked from time to time at the passenger seat next to him.

Sitting in the passenger seat was a young white man of about twenty, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses on his fair, clean nose bridge.

At this moment, his brows were tightly furrowed, and his hands were typing non-stop on the laptop placed on his knees as if flying.

Looking closely, one could clearly see beads of sweat accumulating and growing larger on his fair forehead, gradually sticking the strands of blonde hair protruding from the front of his forehead to his brow.

"How is it?"

After a while, a head stretched out from the back seat of the Octavia and asked the young white man in the passenger seat, speaking in English.

If Sun Cheng were here, he would surely be able to recognize at once that this man sitting in the back of the car was the very man disguised as a courier who had broken into his residence not long ago.

"Unfortunately, it's very clean!"

The young white man shrugged helplessly and angrily slammed the lid of the laptop shut. "Too clean, Wang... the computer of the target you copied is like it has never been used; apart from the operating system, there is nothing... I couldn't even find the historical records that should have existed in the kernel through the Microsoft backdoor... do you know what this means..."

"It means that either that computer has never been used, or it proves that the other party is a very vigilant person..."